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In some cases enlarged adenoids make it really hard to chew with the mouth closed as the person will have problems breathing. I had this exact issue while growing up. Everyone thought I was a rude eater while I couldn't breathe while I was chewing unless I opened my mouth.

I have the same issue of getting nauseated while listening to people eat like disgusting cows. Unfortunately, it's really an internal issue since you can't tell him how to eat. The only answer I can give is get an mp3 player and hope he doesn't eat continuously.

It's terrible advice really but I second this because it's quite satisfying. I share an office with a prodigious belcher (combined with grunts of exertion from said belches) and it makes me feel a hell of a lot better to just sit there farting all day.

He also eats with his mouth open and I can occasionally hear it over music but I've taken to just eating my lunch elsewhere when he starts eating.

I'm super-sensitive to this sort of thing and it drives me nuts. I think I even posted about it awhile back.

I have one coworker in a cube across the way that does the horse-chewing thing. I swear if she were eating pudding I'd be able to hear it from a distance. It's mind-boggling. Oddly enough, an opportunity to address it actually presented itself one day when she told a coworker that her own boyfriend had complained about it. Unfortunately it didn't help the problem -- her reasoning is that she has a "small mouth" and can't help it. Oh well.

The coworker on the other side of my cube wall, on the other hand, makes these wet slurping sounds that confounded me for years. It sounds like a kid messily eating a popsicle but that wasn't it. I figured it out eventually when I ended up on an elevator with the guy and he made the same sound without anything in his mouth at all. I'm pretty sure he sucks his dentures. I doubt he knows people all around can hear it.

tldr: the only effective solution I've found is headphones and Pandora, which is, fortunately, totally bearable. Pleasant even.

It also never occurred to me that there may be a medical condition at the root. That may help me be less pissed off at the people.

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I used to have a bloke who sat next to me at work, that used to fart most of the day. No sound, at all.. these were the "silent but violent" variety. The first you'd know would be a smell from the pits of Skunk Hell arising while you were eating your sandwiches. Disgusto!

I used to have a bloke who sat next to me at work, that used to fart most of the day. No sound, at all.. these were the "silent but violent" variety. The first you'd know would be a smell from the pits of Skunk Hell arising while you were eating your sandwiches. Disgusto!

How small are your cubes? I don't think I can produce enough gas to have it over flow to other people's work space even if I tried.